Children who do not want to go to school
Young children usually like to go to school, but in some cases it causes them fear and even panic, the child pretends to be sick and exaggerates the physical symptoms, just to stay home and avoid school. A child aged 5-10 years, behaving this way, is panically afraid to part with a familiar home and relatives. Irrational fear can occur in children at the first visit to a kindergarten, but more often it happens in an elementary school. Usually a child complains of a headache, sore throat or stomach, when it's time to go to school. As soon as he realizes that he will stay at home, the "illness" immediately passes, and the next morning begins again. Sometimes the child flatly refuses to leave the house. A child who demonstrates an irrational fear of going to school may also experience the following symptoms.
- Fear of being alone in the room.
- Fear that something bad will happen to the parents.
- The desire to "walk the tail" around the house for a father or mother.
- Difficulties with falling asleep.
- Frequent nightmares.
- Panic fear of animals, monsters or bandits.
- Fear of being alone in the dark.
- Rolling scandals, so as not to go to school.
Such fears are common in children with anxiety disorders. Possible long-term consequences (already in adulthood) can be extremely serious if you do not provide the child with professional help. Missing the school and not meeting with friends for a long time, the child runs the risk of starting his studies, he will have problems with communication. In elementary school, children usually learn much more readily and easily learn knowledge. They develop observation, the ability to remember, developed, like never before. The feeling of one's own self becomes stronger. Children gradually become aware of their gender. To prevent this, parents should show the child to a child psychologist who will help him to return to school lessons and the previous schedule as soon as possible.
Specific difficulties in studying and their correction
In the preschool period it is not easy to identify the child's learning difficulties, but in school such problems immediately become noticeable.
- The child is not able to learn the reading as it is at his age, he
there are difficulties in other stages of training, despite the high enough IQ (an indicator of mental development) and the efforts of teachers.
- The child may have difficulties with language and speech, which do not disappear with time. For example, if a child later started to speak, he may not be given the pronunciation or use of certain words, as well as the expression of his thoughts.
- The child slowly and illegibly writes.
If serious goals are set for the first academic year before the child, he may not be able to cope with them. Perhaps it will take more time, energy and energy to achieve the same results that other children are given relatively easily. At the same time, the child's self-esteem is reduced, he feels insecure. Difficulties cause nervousness symptoms in children - for example, the child has a habit of sucking a finger, gnawing at the fingernails, irritability, inability to concentrate and sleep disturbances.
"It's hard for him to concentrate and remember the material."
- Poor academic performance reduces his self-esteem, he ceases to believe in his own strength.
- Difficulties with study or speech that arose from one of the members of the family.
The exact cause of these difficulties has not been established, but recent studies indicate the presence of minor cerebral disorders or delayed development of individual brain areas. Children understand what they read through the interpreting abilities of the brain. Interpretation of the perceived and receiving information through the eyes is not the same. The brain compares visual images with those seen before and with past experience. Specific learning problems may indicate flaws in this process, not visual disturbances. Acquired mnestic dyslexia and other learning difficulties can be the result of damage to the brain by infection (encephalitis, meningitis), craniocerebral trauma, ill-treatment, exposure to toxic substances, premature birth, chemotherapy, etc. Difficulties in studying also result from mental retardation, visual and hearing impairment , emotional disorders, an unfavorable environment (a troubled family, inadequate preparation for studies, missed lessons, material difficulties), although they are not specific learning problems.
Mystical dyslexia
A simplified definition and correction of mnestic dyslexia is a difficulty in teaching reading that occurs in children with a normal mental development, without any signs of any physical or mental illness that may explain these difficulties. Dyslexics find it very difficult to distinguish letters or groups of letters, the order of their alternation in a word or sentence, they can hardly read, their academic performance is much lower than that of classmates and peers. Mystical dyslexia affects all aspects of a child's life, since difficulties in communicating determine his behavior. It is difficult for such children to write, each task requires a lot of effort. If we exclude visual, auditory and neurological defects, it is assumed that mnestic dyslexia is caused by several reasons.
- Insufficient cerebral lateralization, which prevents to catch the correct arrangement of letters, confuses, as a result the child misses letters or syllables or rearranges them in places.
- Disorientation in time and space.
- Perception problems.
- Psychomotor difficulties (coordination, balance, etc.).
- Emotional disorders.
It is very important to identify and correct this problem as early as possible, before school or in the first 2 years of primary school, and then turn to a child psychologist and start an individual reading program. It is necessary to find the root cause to act immediately and appropriately, otherwise mnestic dyslexia will affect the learning of the child as a whole. Sometimes it is necessary to study the situation in the family to find out why children or adolescents are afraid to go to school. Often problems in adolescents are serious enough and require intensive treatment. But the irrational fear of leaving home and leaving the parents is successfully treated if you seek help from a specialist. Now we know how mnestic dyslexia proceeds, correction and elimination of this disease in children.